I completely understand the logic of Black Excellence — Black people, especially students, are underrepresented, under acknowledged, and often feel like outsiders at universities, especially in Canada where campuses are still predominantly White.
Read moreThoughts on Taraji P. Henson and Self-Worth
As a Black woman academic, I’ve never been paid what I know I am worth, and that’s compared to faculty of my rank — I’ve checked and that math ain’t mathing. But there are few faculty of my rank at any school who can write the way I do, give lectures the way that I do, and just make this work look as easy as I do, even though it is not easy at all.
Read moreThe Wealth Gap Existed Long Before COVID-19
In 1997, the Asian avian influenza (H5N1) commonly referred to as “bird flu” circulated around the globe but affected few people, even when it reemerged in 2003. In 2009, a new H1N1 influenza virus also emerged. But it too, like the 1957 and 1968 H1N1 influenza viruses did not shut down the entire world.
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